<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"Content owners would like to have extremely tight control on the content so they can maximize revenue," Gadh said. "Users want to move stuff around."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Translated:
"We're interested in whoring you for all the money youre worth, and youre trying not to become our slaves. So now we're going to try inventing something to stop you."
<!--QuoteBegin-TommyVercetti+May 19 2005, 04:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TommyVercetti @ May 19 2005, 04:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2060 each purchase of copyrighted RIAA or MPAA material will come with a free Combine Civil Protection bodyguard, who will beat you with a stick if you try to copy it or let someone other than yourself listen to the noise.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Doesn't even seem all that unlikely anymore. I mean, they want to make it impossible to lend - actually LEND, not "lendbutactuallypirate" - people a DVD that you bought. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the legality of that. I allow a friend to watch the DVD that I bought - while I do so, I lose the use of that DVD.
Imagine going to Ikea to buy their chair, "Börge," then having to sign an agreement that you'll never let your guests sit on it - only you are allowed to ever sit on that particular chair. It's the same situation.
I'm curious, does your album have the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on it? From what I've heard, the original designers of the Red and Yellow book CD standards told CD manufacturers that they weren't allowed to use the logos on certain copy protected CDs, because they aren't actually proper, standard-compliant CDs.
Since they do let you have multiple copies and to share them, as long as two copies are never in use at the same time as I understand.
But to solve the copying issue.... make a new media format, don't commercially sell burners, make it close enough to a CD that u can still burn and play CDs, with all ripping then involving a transmission from a player to the computer, and not a computer drive to a computer drive, at least there will be much less pirating.
Then again just selling your stuff with moderate copy protection and trusting that people don't all suck is a decent idea.
Oh <a href='http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/20/spanish_copyright_so.html' target='_blank'>what the hell</a>? Seriously... what the hell? Its shameful how a university dean is so pliable to the demands of an industry. A university is a place for learning, for information to flow so that the people studying there can learn to think for themselves. WHAT. THE. HELL. Jeez.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"Content owners would like to have extremely tight control on the content so they can maximize revenue," Gadh said. "Users want to move stuff around."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Translated:
"We're interested in whoring you for all the money youre worth, and youre trying not to become our slaves. So now we're going to try inventing something to stop you."
Doesn't even seem all that unlikely anymore. I mean, they want to make it impossible to lend - actually LEND, not "lendbutactuallypirate" - people a DVD that you bought. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the legality of that. I allow a friend to watch the DVD that I bought - while I do so, I lose the use of that DVD.
Imagine going to Ikea to buy their chair, "Börge," then having to sign an agreement that you'll never let your guests sit on it - only you are allowed to ever sit on that particular chair. It's the same situation.
But to solve the copying issue.... make a new media format, don't commercially sell burners, make it close enough to a CD that u can still burn and play CDs, with all ripping then involving a transmission from a player to the computer, and not a computer drive to a computer drive, at least there will be much less pirating.
Then again just selling your stuff with moderate copy protection and trusting that people don't all suck is a decent idea.